R help - Jun 2010 - How to get the closing price from the the GOOGLE FINANCE site for NSEINDIA stocks

Sir,
 How to get the closing price from this link
http://www.google.com/finance/historical?q=NSE:RCOM

I installed quantmod
getSymbols('NSE:RCOM',src='google')

  gives me this error**********************

Error in download.file(paste(google.URL, "q=", Symbols.name,
"&startdate=",  :
  cannot open URL
'http://finance.google.com/finance/historical?q=NSE:RCOM&startdate=Jan+01,+2007&enddate=Jun+05,+2010&output=csv'
Calls: getSymbols -> do.call -> getSymbols.google -> download.file
In addition: Warning message:
In download.file(paste(google.URL, "q=", Symbols.name,
"&startdate=",  :
  cannot open: HTTP status was '404 Not Found'

Could someone please give me the correct statement.
thanks

Try getSymbols("RCOM.NS", from="1900-01-01") instead.

It looks like google has removed the ability to download csv (not much business
providing it;)). In any case, Yahoo historical prices go way back than googles.
For instance, getSymbols("^DJI", from="1900-01-01") ;
head(get("DJI")) shows the first date as 1928!

Hope this helps,
Ivan
> Date: Sat, 5 Jun 2010 23:46:37 +0530
> From: veepsirtt@gmail.com
> To: r-help@r-project.org
> Subject: [R] How to get the closing price from the the GOOGLE FINANCE site
for NSEINDIA stocks
> 
> Sir,
>  How to get the closing price from this link
> http://www.google.com/finance/historical?q=NSE:RCOM
> 
> I installed quantmod
> getSymbols('NSE:RCOM',src='google')
> 
>   gives me this error**********************
> 
> Error in download.file(paste(google.URL, "q=", Symbols.name,
"&startdate=",  :
>   cannot open URL
>
'http://finance.google.com/finance/historical?q=NSE:RCOM&startdate=Jan+01,+2007&enddate=Jun+05,+2010&output=csv'
> Calls: getSymbols -> do.call -> getSymbols.google -> download.file
> In addition: Warning message:
> In download.file(paste(google.URL, "q=", Symbols.name,
"&startdate=",  :
>   cannot open: HTTP status was '404 Not Found'
> 
> Could someone please give me the correct statement.
> thanks
> 
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